If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSA major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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